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Continue reading →: Bengali butternut squash with chickpeas
Ingredients 3 tbsp vegetable oil large pinch ground asafoetida 1 bay leaf ½ tsp panch phoran (a blend of equal quantities of fenugreek, nigella seeds, fennel seeds, cumin and mustard seeds), available from Asian supermarkets, also known as Bengali five-spice 1-2 mild dried red chillies 1 small onion, chopped ½…
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Continue reading →: Woolton Pie
8 cups of seasonal vegetables (swede, potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, turnips, carrots, cabbage – all prepared and diced) 6 large potatoes (cubed with skins on) 2 onions (chopped) 1 leek (sliced) A knob of butter or margarine (for mashed potato) A knob of butter (or oil) for frying A knob of…
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Continue reading →: Trouble is Brewing by Ellie Alexander
Jules Capshaw, owner of the charming bakeshop Torte, meets Sloan Krause, who's in from out of town for the beer festival that has landed in Ashland, Oregon. Sloan is the brewmaster at the famed der Keller brewing company that operates out of Leavenworth, Washington, and she’s come to the festival…
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Continue reading →: Best Laid Plants by Marty Wingate
A trip to the English countryside turns into a brush with death for Pru Parke, the only gardener whose holiday wouldn’t be complete without a murder to solve. Pru and her husband, former Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Pearse, are long overdue for a getaway. So when Pru is invited to…
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Continue reading →: Killer Crust by Chris Cavender
Eleanor Swift isn't amused when Laughing Luigi–the sketchy frozen pizza dough baron–walks into her Timber Ridge, North Carolina, pizzeria, A Slice of Delight. But the contract for his pizza-making contest seems made-to-order, especially with $25,000 in first-prize money up for grabs. However, when the pizza dough king fails to rise…
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Continue reading →: Cat Among The Pigeons by Agatha Christie
Among the lacrosse sticks in the gym, some school girls stumble upon the body of their unpopular games mistress – shot through the heart from point blank range. Hmm slightly misleading introduction from the Goodreads site here! Miss Springer (the games mistress) was found by the school nurse and the…
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Continue reading →: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans by Agatha Christie
'All sorts of things happen at the Grange… queer things. People come here to get better – and they don't get better – they get worse' When Bobby Jones (not the American-born master of the game) found a dying man at the foot of a cliff beside a golf course,…
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Continue reading →: Death Threads by Elizabeth Lyn Casey
Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair is basking in the warmth of her new circle of friends from South Carolina's Sweet Briar Ladies Society sewing circle. That is until local author Colby Calhoun reveals an unflattering secret about the town's historic past-and then disappears, leaving a bloody trail behind him. And when…
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Continue reading →: Deadly Bubbles in the Wine by Mary Jo Burke (an Aloha Lagoon book)
After Simone Ryan is stood up at the altar by her fiancé, Elliott, she decides to enjoy her would-be honeymoon in paradise alone. She checks into the Aloha Lagoon Resort's bridal suite and promptly begins to drown her sorrows in champagne. But when Simone steps out onto the balcony to…
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Continue reading →: Arsenic and Old Books by Miranda James
Lucinda Beckwith Long, the mayor of Athena, Mississippi, has donated a set of Civil War-era diaries to the archives of Athena College. She would like librarian Charlie Harris to preserve and substantiate them as a part of the Long family legacy—something that could benefit her son, Beck, as he prepares…
